Personal Statement



Personal Statement

Dear Bypass Committee,

I beg to state that I am currently enrolled in English 1156 and i want to skip english 1157 to 1158. I have learned to appreciate the peaceful, yet exhilarating moment when my mind engages with an author's thoughts on a page. As Toni Morrison says in The Dancing Mind , "[reading is] to experience one's own mind dancing with another's." In my early days as a college student, I wanted to know the "true" meaning of a work or what the author intended, however, I have now realized this would void literature of its most ...